propagulum

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin. See propagate.

Noun

propagulum (plural propagula)

  1. (botany) A runner terminated by a germinating bud.
  2. A gemma or bud affecting asexual propagation in many algae.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “propagulum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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